2024 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success

About the Institute

Get ready for the 2024 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success! For almost fifteen years, AAC&U has been a leader on evidence-based high-impact practices (HIPs) that empower institutions to be more intentional in developing strategies to achieve equity in student success outcomes across diverse student populations. Building on this foundation, AAC&U has designed a dynamic 2024 institute program that is relevant to the current higher education environment and reflects on the “why” and “how” behind high-impact practices (HIPs). HIPs provide hands-on learning and increase student engagement, leading to a better alignment of knowledge attainment with degree completion and career-readiness goals. All of which best serve the student, institution, and broader society.

During the 2024 institute, teams will have the opportunity to collaborate with distinguished faculty members to discover innovative approaches to creating effective curricular and co-curricular designs for learning and assessment practices that connect with your students' unique strengths; their cultural wealth, identities, and values, to transform their educational experiences and to prepare them for success. The institute program will focus on developing campus action plans to embed high-impact practices across all disciplines and build capacity for these wraparound services that will support educating the whole student.

Whether your institution has had high-impact practices as a core educational strategy for years and you want to refresh it and make it more relevant in today’s environment, or you are just starting off on this journey, the Institute provides a curriculum track to meet the needs of your team. Receive individualized consultation by highly qualified faculty, interact with teams in various stages of implementing HIPs, and explore the challenges and triumphs of educational change. Participants will tackle the obstacles of limited resources and adapt to variations in modes of delivery, ensuring that effective practices are brought to scale. Participants also will examine emerging strategies to enhance student engagement, including utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) as an educational resource, and incorporating micro-credentials into learning outcomes for career-readiness. Teams will gain invaluable insights into assessing student achievement and measuring the impact of HIPs and achievement of proficiency in learning outcomes. These robust assessment processes will empower your team to set and track progress towards retention and degree completion, ultimately enhancing equitable educational outcomes for all students.

Join us to make connections, be inspired, and gain the tools and strategies that will guide your institution to reimagine a sustainable model for advancing quality and equity in student success outcomes. The 2024 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success is the catalyst for transformative change in higher education, and you are invited to be part of this exhilarating journey towards excellence.

Virtual Format

AAC&U is excited to offer attendees the opportunity to participate virtually in the 2024 HIPs and Student Success Institute. The virtual format provides an excellent opportunity to consult with world-class faculty and engage in cross-cluster collaboration with institutions across the nation at a more accessible cost. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a virtual learning community for plenary sessions, concurrent workshops, team meetings, and consultations with faculty. As an added benefit, all registered participants from campus teams will enjoy extended access to Higher Logic, the institute's virtual platform, for six months after the institute concludes. This access will allow participants to review institute resources, including recordings of all plenary sessions and concurrent workshops.

Campus Team Outcomes

• Create a comprehensive action plan or refresh your institution's current strategies to advance equity in student success outcomes across diverse student populations through the implementation of High-Impact Practices (HIPs).
• Discover innovative approaches to creating effective curricular and co-curricular designs for learning and assessment practices that connect with your students' unique strengths, cultural wealth, identities, and values.
• Develop effective strategies for overcoming limited resources and adapting to variations in modes of delivery, to ensure that effective practices are brought to scale.
• Learn how to embed high-impact practices across all disciplines and build capacity for wraparound services that support educating the whole student.

Who Should Apply

We invite teams at all levels of this journey to apply. Whether your institution has had high-impact practices as a core educational strategy for years and you want to refresh it and make it more relevant in today’s environment, or you are just starting off on this journey, the Institute provides a curriculum track to meet the needs of your team. We want to meet you where you are in developing faculty-engaged, evidence-based, sustainable models and strategies to advance quality and equity in student learning outcomes. All regionally accredited two- and four-year institutions are encouraged and eligible to apply.